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Letters Iatent N 98,470, dated January 4, 1870.

DRIER.

The Schedule referred to these Letters Patent and making part o! thestuitteA I MPM We, ALBERT WQGOX and WILLIAM GAUSE, both ofIndianapolis', Marion county, Indiana, have invented a new and usefulDrying-House, of which the following isl a specification.

Nature and Object of the Invention.r i

This is' an improvement in the class of apparatus employed for dryingfruit, vegetables, clothing, 85e., and which comprises a more or lessclosed chamber, having suitable racks orvshelves, for the articles to bedried, and a stove, forproducing the requisite heat; and.

Our iuventionconsists in- First, an arrangement of smoke-dues andcaliducts, for the equable and effective distribution of heat.

Secondly, a provision for drawing or directing the heat to one or otherside of the chamber.

Thirdly, a means-of super-heating or drying all moist air or vapor thatmay accumulate in the upper part of the drying-chamber.

General Description, 'with Reference to the Drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of our drying-apparatus, with its doorsopen.

Figure 2.is a vertical section in the plane of the smoke-pipes.

Figure 3 is a section of the heater on the line :za-x.

A is the drying-chamber, similar to a wardrobe, having in front one ormore doors, y, and at top a steam or vapor-receptacle, O, whichcommunicates with the drying-chamber below, by orices c.

The drying-chamber is occupied at bottom by our I heater, whichconsistsof a stove,D, from whose upper part there brauch ott' two dat and broadues E E', which, outside ofthe chamber, enter vertical lines F F',having dampers f f The tlues F F, at their upper ends, enter a pipe, G,which traverses horizontally the upper part of the drying-chamber.

. From the middle of the pipeG, the smoke-discharge pipe H rises throughthe steam-receptacle C, and above the top thereof'.

The smoke-discharge pipe H has a vertical seriesof apertures, h,whosesize permits the free passage of vapor into the pipe, while preventingthe escapeof sparks or ignited fragments therefrom.

A sliding register, I, having a handle, t', which projects through thetop of the house, enables the opening or closing of the apertures h, atwill.

, Our hoteairpassagc or caliduct passes up in rear of the stove at K,and over the top thereof at K', and

discharges into the drying-chamber, through orifices L L', immediatelyover the broad ues E E', whose heat, being abstracted by the air,ascends with a nearly equable tlow through the drying-chamber.

M is a ap, to afford access to the caliduct, for cleansing or otherwise.

N are racks, to receive articles to be dried.

Openings c o', closable by shutters O O', enable a portion or all of theheat generated in the dryinghouse to be quickly liberated, so as toreduce the ternperature within, and/this heat may be employed to warmone or more' apartments, when desired.

Operation.

A tire being made in the stove, and fruit, or other articles to bcdried, being placed upon the racks N, the air escaping from thecaliducts K K', impiuges on the tops of the Ilues E E', and becominghighly heated, passes upward through the racks, and about the articlesto be desiccated.

Should any irregularity of action occur, it can be iu- 'stantly checkedby opening thc damper f or f', on the l The drying-chamber A,communicating with theY vapor-chamber O, by numerous orifices c, theascend# ing currents of heated air are drawn equally upward and withuniform eect at every part.

` W'e claim, as our'inventionl. The described arrangement of stove tocaliduct K K', orifices L L', aud broad ilues E E', for the ob` jectdesignated.

2. In combinationwith the elements K K', L L', E'

E', the side pipes F F', with the dempers f f'.

3. The arrangement of side pipes or lues F F'andV the pipe G, traversingthe upper part ot' the chamber A, as and for the object stated.

In testimony of which invention. we hereunto set our hands.

ALBERT W. COX. WILLIAM GAUSE.

Witnesses as t0 00X:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, JAMES H. LAYMAN.

Witnesses as to GAUSE;

FRANK A, DIAL, HIRAM LINDLEY.

